From Yellowstone in Montana to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming
Once more, the annual grand Frolik family vacation adventure took place. This year we escaped the August heat, with a 12 day long expedition to the mountains. Day 1 Fly out of Pittsburgh to Jackson Hole, Wyoming through Chicago. Jackson Hole, has a small (but very cute) airport with a fabulous display of wildlife photography. […]
Five Films About The Labor Movement
It’s often forgotten in the whirlwind of grilled hot dogs and sparklers but Labor Day was originally meant to celebrate well…labor and the hard working folks who perform it. So this year along with the mandatory barbecue and fireworks show, consider brushing up on the history of the workers movement with one of the following […]
Five Great College Films
Ah, September, when the weather grows cooler, the leaves start to change, and everyone goes back to school including everyone in higher education. In honor of this timeless rite of passage consider one of the following films set on campus. Animal House (1978) No such list would be complete without the immortal classic about a […]
R.I.P Gene Wilder
On August 29 the world became just a little less funny with the news that legendary comedian Gene Wilder had passed away at the age of 83. Gene Wilder performed in several Broadway productions including Mother Courage and Her Children and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest before getting his first film role in the […]
Five YA Novels Adults Can Enjoy Too
Besides spawning blockbuster film franchises, one of the things that’s made such series as Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight so iconic is that they were hugely popular not just among their targeted “young adult” audience but among people old enough to drink as well. It just goes to show that YA fiction has […]
Literary Starbucks – Fresh-Brewed, Half-Caf, No-Whip Bookish Humor
John Keats orders a Venti iced caramel Frappucino. He sits down at a table by himself, sighs dramatically, and doesn’t drink it. Literary Starbucks is apparently a popular tumblr that I was completely unaware of until its authors (Jill Pskanzer, Wilson Josephson, and Nora Katz) bothered to put out a collection in book form. […]
The Lost Girls – Five Generations of Family Secrets
I hold secrets that don’t belong to me; secrets that would blacken the names of the defenseless dead. So writes the late Lucy Evans in her the opening pages of the journal she leaves behind that makes up one half of Heather Young’s spellbinding novel The Lost Girls. In 1935, six year-old Emily Evans […]
The Hatching – World War Z With Spiders!
She was not afraid of spiders. There was no reason to be afraid of spiders. My brother is one of the biggest fans of horror movies and novels I know. He devours stuff that would give most people nightmares, but even though Ezekiel Boone’s debut horror novel The Hatching is one of the freshest, […]